Favourite Moves

Ronaldo uses the double scissors alot and so do a fair bit of wing players like Damiean Duff.

I have a ton of moves I love to use the double sicssors is one, but I am big fan of the Maradona 360 spin and lots of pull and roll moves because good defenders may get beat once or twice with a fast step over but after that you need to trick them with the ball moving not just your body.

I like the Ronaldo stepover which includes a roll and a stepover all in one motion.

I use the insde outside move too but after I have done it once I use either a outside step over to fake the outside touch the next time or a roll and push to keep the ball inside while the defender thinks I am going outside.

One that I use a lot too is real simple when you get face to face with a defender step on the outside of the ball with the ball of your foot and roll it just a little toward you right side then when the defender reaches to take the ball away push it past his foot to your left and you just opened up space for a pass, shot or a step past him.

 

Maradona's 360 is tough to beat but I also like Zizou (Zidane) and Raul's mastery of the 'behind the foot tap' to fool a defender's read of direction.

 

Maradonnas are always fun to watch, to bad i'm not that proficient at them (keep in mind i'm a goalkeeper, so my moves are going to be mediocre at best). I love the tap-behind-the-leg-and-around-the-defender-kinda-like-Denilson-did-in-the-2002-world-cup-finals move... one of the few moves i can do confidently. stepover/double scissors nutmegs are fun. there's another move, but i don't want to have to describe it.

 

Maradonas can be useful, as long as you don't overuse them. If the defender sees it coming, you're going to lose the ball.

I use the scissors sometimes, again it's a matter of not overusing it.

But there are some moves that can work even if the defender knows it's coming - the Matthews, for example. Nudge the ball with the inside of your foot, then explode the other way with the outside of the same foot. You don't have to commit to a direction until literally the last moment, which means the defender is kept guessing.

 

full zico, half zico, revelino, the cruyff, the Zidane cross over, i will use them all on you so i can score, and take my shirt off, and hump the corner flag.

 

anyplace on the web that has any of these moves illustrated? not the corner flag one, mind you....


never mind found a good one :

http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/Content/Sport/Footballcommunity/asp/16h_scissors.asp#1

 

Are you using th half Zico with you back to the goal becuase that is usually a move reserved for changing the point of play to whats behind you.

 

The Matthews is the same as the inside outside move I was talking about before but I seem to find this to be a move that can be stopped easily becuase it is so over used by almost everyone,even more so by players who cant use their opposite foot.

If it's one of your favorite moves and you use it a few time I would say change it up by using a scissor after the inside touch to fake the outside touch or go inside outside before pressure then inside inside after the defender moves to cut off what he thinks will be the outside touch.

I tend to think the Maradonna move is best to use when you are running from the wing and need to spin inside or if you are getting to a loose ball at the same time as the defender and need to exploed past him. It can work face to face if you have the balls to try it this way, play the ball a bit ahead of yourself to make the defender think you have lost control then when they go in explode on the ball and pull the turn.

 

I end up going inside-inside more than half the time anyway. As long as one is reasonably unpredictable, the defenders shouldn't catch on too well. At least it works at NCAA Div III level.

I learned not to overuse the Maradona the hard way. Namely, using it face-to-face too many times in one game.